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Fedora 10: wordpress-mu-2.8.5.2 Critical Resource Exhaustion DoS

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Calendar Grey November 10, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Updates for security and bug fixes in WordPress-MU on Fedora 10, tackling urgent issues for several users.
Security and bugfix updates based upon the WordPress 2.8.5 release

Summary

WordPress-MU is a derivative of the WordPress blogging codebase, to allow

one instance to serve multiple users.

Update Information:

Security and bugfix updates based upon the WordPress 2.8.5 release

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Fedora resource exhaustion wordpress-mu

Change Log

* Fri Nov 6 2009 Bret McMillan - 2.8.5.2-1 - Update to version 2.8.5.2 for security fixes * Wed Aug 12 2009 Bret McMillan - 2.8.4a-1 - Update to version 2.8.4a for security fixes * Fri Jul 10 2009 Bret McMillan - 2.7-6 - Patch for CVE-2009-2334 - Update to version 2.7 - Alter source prep so I can still use upstream's tarball - favicon.ico removed from manifest * Tue Apr 7 2009 Bret McMillan - 2.6.5-2 - Patch for CVE-2009-1030 * Mon Dec 1 2008 Bret McMillan - 2.6.5-1 - Update to 2.6.5 - https://wordpress.org/news/2008/11/wordpress-265/ - https://odd.blog/2008/11/25/wordpress-mu-265/ - Fixes 1 XSS security issue, 3 bugs

References


[ 1 ] Bug #530056 - WordPress: Resource exhaustion (DoS) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530056

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update wordpress-mu' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: wordpress-mu
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 2.8.5.2
Release: 1.fc10
URL: https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
Summary: WordPress-MU multi-user blogging software

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Fedora resource exhaustion wordpress-mu

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